US 12,265,345 B2
Image forming apparatus
Osamu Sasaoka, Kanagawa (JP); Akinori Yokota, Tokyo (JP); Toshiyuki Watanabe, Kanagawa (JP); and Yasuhiro Fukase, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Nov. 27, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/519,218.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-192260 (JP), filed on Nov. 30, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0176264 A1, May 30, 2024
Int. Cl. G03G 15/20 (2006.01); G03G 15/00 (2006.01); G03G 15/16 (2006.01)
CPC G03G 15/1675 (2013.01) [G03G 15/607 (2013.01); G03G 15/70 (2013.01); G03G 2215/00679 (2013.01); G03G 2215/066 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image forming apparatus comprising:
a conveyance unit configured to convey a sheet in a conveyance direction;
an image bearing member configured to bear a toner image;
a transfer unit configured to form a transfer nip together with the image bearing member, the transfer unit being configured to transfer, in the transfer nip, the toner image borne on the image bearing member to the sheet conveyed by the conveyance unit;
a fixing unit configured to fix the toner image, transferred onto the sheet in the transfer nip, on the sheet in a fixing nip;
a sheet discharge unit configured to discharge the sheet on which the toner image has been fixed by the fixing unit;
a detection unit arranged between the fixing nip and the sheet discharge unit in the conveyance direction and configured to detect the sheet; and
a control unit configured to control conveyance of the sheet by controlling the conveyance unit and the image bearing member,
wherein in a case where the control unit has judged that a jam occurred by a jammed sheet based on a detection result of the detection unit, the control unit is configured to perform a conveyance processing of conveying the jammed sheet such that a trailing edge of the jammed sheet reaches a downstream side of the transfer nip in the conveyance direction.